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orangecrush

(19,384 posts)
Thu May 9, 2019, 10:32 AM May 2019

Trump chuckles when audience member suggests shooting migrants



President Donald Trump was tickled Wednesday when an audience member at a Florida rally suggested shooting migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump was bemoaning the legal protections afforded migrants and espousing the need for a border wall when he asked rhetorically, "How do you stop these people?"




"Shoot them!" someone shouted from the Panama City Beach crowd, according to multiple news media reports.

The remark drew a chuckle from the president, who then shook his head, pointed in the audience member's direction and said, "Only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement." "Only in the Panhandle," he repeated to laughs and cheers from the crowd.







Prior to the interruption, Trump had mentioned "border security people" who he said are not permitted to use weapons on the migrants.

"I mean, when you have 15,000 people marching up, and you have hundreds and hundreds of people, and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great – and don't forget, we don't let them and we can't let them use weapons. We can't. Other countries do. We can't. I would never do that," he said.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1150160001
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Trump chuckles when audience member suggests shooting migrants (Original Post) orangecrush May 2019 OP
Oh Donald that is funny isn't it, you miserable fuck... Blue Owl May 2019 #1
A schill orangecrush May 2019 #2

orangecrush

(19,384 posts)
2. A schill
Thu May 9, 2019, 10:40 AM
May 2019

allowed dolt 45 to plant that seed in the mind of his base.

The same seed will no doubt be planted for the event of his impeachment or electoral defeat.

This is not normal.

"A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. Shills can carry out their operations in the areas of media, journalism, marketing, politics, confidence games, or other business areas. A shill may also act to discredit opponents or critics of the person or organization in which they have a vested interest through character assassination or other means.

In most uses, shill refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers, participants or "marks" the impression of an enthusiastic customer independent of the seller, marketer or con artist, for whom they are secretly working. The person or group in league with the shill relies on crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to do business with the seller or accept the ideas they are promoting. Shills may be employed by salespeople and professional marketing campaigns. Plant and stooge more commonly refer to a person who is secretly in league with another person or outside organization while pretending to be neutral or a part of the organization in which they are planted, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization (see double agent)."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill



"or an intelligence organization (see double agent)."

Is he getting russian operatives planted at his rallies now? And he responds on cue.

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